Re: [Obo-discuss] DO 2014 - EXTENDED DEADLINE: July 25, 2014

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Hello Selja,
 any chance you could change your acronym from DO, I am concerned that
this may be confusing, as this is the acronym for the Disease Ontology.

Much appreciated for your consideration.
Regards,
Lynn Schriml

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Selja Seppälä <
sel...@gm...> wrote:

> Apologies for cross-posting
> Please forward this message to colleagues in the areas of interest
>
> EXTENDED DEADLINE: July 25, 2014
>
> Second International Workshop on Definitions in Ontologies (DO 2014) at
> the International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO 2014)
>
> October 6-7, 2014
> Houston, USA
>
> Website: https://sites.google.com/site/definitionsinontologies/
>
> This workshop is a follow-up to the workshop on Definitions in Ontologies
> (DO 2013) held last year in Montreal in conjunction with ICBO 2013. The
> focus of this second workshop is on definition practices in either human or
> machine-assisted ontology development.
>
> PRESENTATION
> A current problem in ontology development is constructing the needed
> definitions of terms either logical or in natural language. For example,
> ontologies built using OBO Foundry principles are advised to include both
> logical and natural language definitions, but ontology developers too often
> focus on only one of these, or they pay insufficient attention to whether
> they are equivalent.
>
> Explicit definitions of terms in ontologies serve a number of purposes.
> Logical definitions allow reasoners to create inferred hierarchies,
> lessening the burden of asserting and checking the validity of
> subsumptions. Natural language definitions help to ameliorate the pervasive
> problem of low inter-annotator agreement. In specialized domains, experts
> will know their own field well, but may only have limited knowledge of
> adjacent disciplines. Good definitions make it possible for non-experts to
> understand unfamiliar terms and thereby make it possible for more confident
> reuse of terms by external ontologies, which in turn facilitates data
> integration.
>
> The goal of this workshop is to bring together interested researchers and
> developers to explore these issues by presenting case studies in a
> biomedical domain discussing the difficulties that arise when constructing
> definitions with a view to sharing strategies in the future. Even in the
> seemingly narrow domain of definition construction, cross-fertilization
> from related disciplines should yield benefits in quality and help to
> identify novel approaches.
>
> Papers submitted should include one or more case studies and raise
> specific questions related to definitions with a link to a biomedical
> domain. Reports on successful or unsuccessful methods are both appropriate.
>
> TOPICS
> -experiences in formulating definitions
> -tools that assist in definition editing, including collaborative systems
> -coordination of logical and textual definitions
> -validation and quality control of definitions, e.g., checking that
> definitions comply with the all/some form
> -methods for constructing definitions from multiple sources
> -use of controlled languages such as Rabbit or ACE for more user-friendly
> logical definition creation
> -use of templates to systematize definition creation
>
> FORMAT AND OUTCOMES
> This will be a half-day workshop with a selected mix of presentations
> based on accepted papers. In order to promote discussion, each presentation
> will be followed by a short response by a participant of the workshop to be
> arranged in advance of the workshop.
>
> This workshop will document findings on the workshop’s website (
> https://sites.google.com/site/definitionsinontologies/). We expect
> accepted papers to be published in the Journal of Biomedical Semantics
> (JBS).
>
> INTENDED AUDIENCE
> -ontologists, tool developers, and domain experts whose work encounters
> issues regarding definitions
> -tool developers building definition- or ontology-authoring tools
> -philosophers and logicians
> -biomedical researchers working on definitions in nomenclatures such as
> SNOMED
> -computer scientists addressing these issues in languages like OWL
> -NLP researchers working on definition extraction, generation, or checking
> -NLP/IR researchers reusing definitions produced for ontologies
>
> SUBMISSIONS
> All papers should include one or more case studies and raise specific
> questions related to definitions with a link to a biomedical domain.
> Papers should be between 5 and 10 pages long (rendered), excluding
> references, formatted using the JBS templates at
> http://www.jbiomedsem.com/authors/instructions/research#preparing-main-manuscript,
> and submitted via EasyChair (
> https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=do2014).
>
> IMPORTANT DATES
> Workshop paper submission EXTENDED DEADLINE: July 25, 2014
> Notification of paper acceptance: August 15, 2014
> Camera-ready copies for the proceedings: September 15, 2014
> Workshops: October 6-7, 2014
>
> ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
> Selja Seppälä (University at Buffalo, USA)
> Patrick Ray (University at Buffalo, USA)
> Alan Ruttenberg (University at Buffalo, USA)
>
> PROGRAM COMMITTEE
> Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS),
> France)
> Mélanie Courtot (MBB Department Simon Fraser University and BC Public
> Health Microbiology & Reference Laboratory, Canada)
> Natalia Grabar (Université de Lille 3, France)
> Janna Hastings (European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK)
> James Malone (European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK)
> Alexis Nasr (Aix Marseille Université, France)
> Richard Power (The Open University, UK)
> Allan Third (The Open University, UK)
>
> SUPPORTED BY
> The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
> The State University of New York at Buffalo
>
>
>
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